The Department of Corrections (M? Ori: Ara Poutama Aotearoa ) is the New Zealand public service department assigned to manage the New Zealand correction system. The roles and functions of the correction were determined and clarified by the issuance of the 2004 Penal Code. In early 2006, the Corrections officially adopted the name M? Ori Ara Poutama Aotearoa .
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The Corrections Department was established in 1995, by the Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995. Prior to this prison, trial and trial systems were all administered by the Department of Justice. The new law provides detainee management, parole and perpetrators on probation for the new Corrections Department while leaving the administration of the court system and collection of fines with the Department of Justice. The goal is to enable the new Department to improve public safety and assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders.
In 2000, an approach based on increased computerized access to information about offenders has been tried. The new chief executive of the department, Mark Byers, introduced a $ 40 million scheme designed to reduce the repetition of so-called Integrated Mangending Management (IOM). It was described as "the largest single initiative the department undertook to reduce the repetition". Seven years later, Greg Newbold said the scheme was an expensive failure and described it as "another ruin on the pile of remnants of abandoned criminal rehabilitation."
In 2012, the government said it would spend $ 65 million over the next four years to reduce criminal repatriation. This will lead to additional alcohol and drugs, increased education, skills training and work programs for prisoners. Correctional Secretary Anne Tolley and Associate Corrections Minister Dr Pita Sharples said the 'reprioritized' operations funding aims to reduce a 25 percent repeat in 2017.
Prison Privatization
Personal prison use has also been tried, stopped and reintroduced. The first personal prison in New Zealand, Remand Central Auckland Prison, also known as Mt. Eden Prison, was opened under contract for Australasia Correctional Management (ACM) in 2000. In 2004, the Labor Government, against privatization, amended legislation to prohibit the extension of private prison contracts. A year later, a 5-year contract with ACM was not renewed. In 2010, the National Government again introduced the private prison and international conglomerate Serco was awarded a contract to run Mt Eden Prison. Many scandals surrounding Mount Eden Prison have caused Serco's contract to be renewed there.
On July 16, 2015, footage of "fight clubs" inside the prison appeared online and reported by TVNZ. Serco was strongly criticized for not investigating until the tape was screened. On July 24, 2015, Serco's contract to run Mount Eden prison was lifted and operations were given back to the New Zealand Corruption Department. Serco was ordered to pay $ 8 million to the New Zealand government as a result of the problems at Mount Eden Prison under the management of Serco.
Serco has also been awarded a contract to build and manage a new 960-bed prison in Wiri. The contract with Serco provides rigid financial sanctions if the rehabilitation program fails to reduce the repetition of 10% more than the Department of Prisons program. The Auckland Correction Facility opened on May 8, 2015. The contract for operating the prison expires in 2040.
Growth in Prison Population
Since its inception, departments must face dramatic growth in prison populations. Between 1997 and 2011, the number of inmates increased by 70% and, at 190 prisoners per 100,000 population (in 2011), New Zealand has one of the higher imprisonment rates in the Western world. Five new prisons have been built in the last ten years to accommodate the increase. The Fifth Labor Government built four prisons - in Ngawha (Northern Territory) accommodating 420 prisoners, Springhill (north of Huntly) housing 840, Auckland ladies' holding 330 and Milton (Otago) holding 425 - at a cost of $ 890 million. When National came to power in 2008, the Department built a new 1,000-bed jail on Mt Eden for $ 218 million in public private partnerships and awarded a contract to Serco.
The growth of the Department has been such that in July 2010, Treasury Secretary Bill English expressed concern that government spending is "led by a rapidly growing prison system that will soon make Corrections of the government's largest department". In December 2011, New Zealand has 20 prisons and the Department employs more than 8,000 staff. The Department's operating budget is over $ 1 billion per year.
As of March 31, 2011, there were 8,755 people in prison in New Zealand. However, the prison population is very fluid and overall about 20,000 people spend time in prison each year, mostly on detention. Almost 75% of those given prison sentences are sentenced to two years or less, and all of these are automatically released in the middle of their sentences. In 2001, 96% percent of inmates were male and 51% male prisoners were M? Ori, so M? Ori is over-represented by population by 3.5 times. The cost to keep someone in jail for 12 months is $ 91,000. In 2001, the Department estimated that a lifetime a guilty person sacrificed the victims and taxpayers $ 3 million.
Despite UK concerns about rising costs, in 2011 the government approved the construction of a new 960-bed prison in Wiri estimated to cost nearly $ 400 million. Later that year the forecasts of the justice sector showed a projected fall in preliminary forecasts for the first time. Charles Chauvel, spokesman for the Labor Party for justice, and the Public Service Association questioned the need for a new prison when there were 1,200 empty beds in the prison system. In March 2012, Correctional Minister Anne Tolley announced that the new prison would allow older prisons like Mt Crawford in Wellington and New Plymouth prison to be closed. The older units in Arohata, Rolleston, Tongariro/Rangipo and Waikeria prison will also be closed.
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Structure
The department consists of three service arms and four other groups. Service arms are prisons, community trials, and rehabilitation and reintegration and each group is used to have separate internal processes, infrastructure and support staff. In May 2012 the newly appointed chief executive, Ray Smith proposed combining three service arms into one team. Smith said that a separate infrastructure "creates job replication, is inefficient and has resulted in overly layered structures."
- The Prison Service operates 19 Department prisons.
- The Community Trial Service manages about 100,000 sentences and community-based commands per year, and provides information and reports to judges and the New Zealand Liberation Board to help reach sentences and issue decisions. Staff also provide intervention to offenders and detainees to overcome their offensive behavior and prepare them to rejoin the community.
- The Rehabilitation and Reintegration Service provides intervention to offenders and prisoners to overcome their offensive behavior. It involves work, education, constructive activities, special care services, and programs that focus on violations.
- Strategies, Policies, and Plans provide strategic planning, development and policy advice, research, and evaluation.
- Finance, Systems and Infrastructure provide various services that support the core business of Corrections.
- Organizational Development provides strategic advice and support and day-to-day services to the Chief Executive and Corrective managers on structural and cultural change, human resource management and development, employee health and safety, employee relations and employment law
- The Chief Executive Officer manages the main functions on behalf of the Chief Executive and incorporates Business Sustainability and Emergency Planning, Corporate Affairs, Internal Audit, Inspectorate, Secretariat of Ministers, Portfolio Management Offices, Professional Standards Unit, and Legal Services Team.
Chief executive
Mark Byers was chief executive of the Corrections Department for the first ten years, until he retired from public service in 2005. Byers oversaw various organizational initiatives in his time at the helm and, in 2000, introduced a new computer system called "Integrated Offenders Management". At the time, it was described as "the largest single initiative the Department undertook to reduce the repetition." IOMS cost $ 40 million but has no impact from a fixed rate of return of 55% two years after its release.
Barry Matthews, who succeeded Byers, formerly Deputy Commissioner of Police in New Zealand and Commissioner of Western Australia Police. He served as chief executive of the Corrections for five years from 2005 to 2010 and, in a farewell interview, recorded three of his top achievements as the implementation of mobile blocking technology in prisons, better enforcement by Trial Service on penalty compliance, and the establishment of a Professional Standards Unit for investigating corruption by prison officers.
During Matthews's time there were public concerns about the Department's management. Simon Power, the opposition spokesman for justice from 2006 to 2008, made a number of calls for a Correction investigation, but nothing was held. In 2009, Matthews leadership was questioned by the new Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, after being released from bad publicity covering the murder of 17-year-old Liam Ashley in a prison van; killing Karl Kuchenbecker by Graeme Burton six months after he was released on parole; and the Auditor General's critical report on parole management from the Trial Service. Matthews exacerbated the speculation about his leadership during the Burton disaster when he claimed: "There is no blood in my hands". After the General Auditor's report was released in 2009, Collins declined to reveal his beliefs in Matthews and media commentators expect him to step down. However, Matthews refused to do so and served his term; in his retirement he admitted to having handled so many crises, the Department was like a "land mine".
Ray Smith, former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Employment and Earnings and former Deputy Chief Executive of Children, Youth and Family Ministry of Social Development became chief executive in 2010. Six months in his five-year term, Smith says he intends to shuffle the Department's annual budget $ 1.1 billion to focus more on rehabilitation and wants his legacy to be a significant reduction in New Zealand's high reoffending rate.
Rehabilitation
In 2012 the government announced that an additional $ 65 million would be put into rehabilitation, in an effort to reduce the 25% counterattack within five years. As part of the package, Correctional Minister Anne Tolley showed 14,000 offenders who spent time in prison with detention each year would be eligible for rehabilitation for the first time. Reassessment of Crime and Punishment spokesman Kim Workman supported the proposal but said it would be difficult to achieve change given the "very high imprisonment" rate in New Zealand.
Violence in prison
In April 2015, a 44-year-old prisoner, Benton Parata, died in Christchurch's Christchurch Prison after being beaten by three other prisoners. A gang expert in New Zealand, Dr Jarrod Gilbert, said the revenge attack could be "snowball" out of control while union prison officials say the attacks in New Zealand's prisons have occurred almost every day and it's just "good luck" that no more deaths.
Recidivism
In March 2009 an analysis of the previous 60 months, showing that 70% of detainees returned within two years after being released from prison and 52% returned to jail within five years (some of them more than once). For juvenile arrestees, the rate of recidivism (return to prison) is 71%. The government estimates that if it achieves a reduced 25% reduction target, there will be 600 fewer people in jail by 2017. By 2014, the number of prisons increases (to 8,700) rather than fall, as more perpetrators are held in detention.
See also
- List of correctional facilities in New Zealand
- New Zealand Correction Association
- New Zealand Liberation Council
- New Zealand Trial Service
- Law enforcement at Pitcairn police # prison officer
References
External links
- Official website
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